MacStiofain’s open letter
(N.Z. Press Assn,—Copyright) DUBLIN, June 12. Sean MacStiofain, the chief of staff of the Provisional Wing of the IJt.A., said in an open letter published in a Dublin newspaper yesterday that there would be no truce in Northern Ireland unless the British Army agreed to one. MacStiofain wrote: “The fact of the matter is that the I.R.A. has more hard-core support today than it has had for 50 years. Some fringe support has been lost since the British initiative, but this is mainly as a result of the mass media pushing the peace-at-any-price line, and peace at any price is not on. “We in the Republican movement want peace, but we want, as we have said so many times, a real and lasting peace. This can be achieved by the British Government accepting our threepoint peace plan—and it may be very near to just that.**
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32941, 13 June 1972, Page 17
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